Three posts in one day, I know.
I was on the phone with Mom not too long ago and as we're talking she was watching the news because in the middle of the conversation she said suddenly, "Jacob Wetterling would be 29 this week..."
Really?
Really. Jacob's been missing from little St. Joseph, Minnesota, population 2,200, since 1989. 18 years. For those of you unfamiliar with the story, this is the gist of what happened: Jacob, 11, was watching his younger siblings when his parents went to a dinner party nearby. Jacob, along with a friend and his sibs, biked to a convenience store to rent a movie and on their way back to the Wetterling home, a man in a stocking mask with a gun told them to stop. He let Jacob's friend and his brother go, but took Jacob and disappeared. Literally vanished. The two boys were told to run and not look back or they'd be shot, neither heard any kind of getaway car. When both were finally brave enough to look back, the man and Jacob were gone.
This story breaks my heart. For 18 years the Wetterling family has had to wonder what happened to their son, to their brother, to their friend. Literally no trace of Jacob has been found since the disappearance. Plenty of tips and leads, but nothing, no clothing, no body, no nothing. I can't begin to imagine what the family must still be going through to this day, just not knowing. I'd rather have closure, and to not have that must still be devastating. If he were dead, where is the body? In kidnapping cases such as this, rarely is the victim taken very far before they're killed. Yet the National Guard, the FBI, hundreds of volunteers, etc, scoured the area for any sign of Jacob. And nothing was found. If he were still alive, what's keeping him from coming home? His family still lives in the same house to this day, because as his mother says when asked why they haven't ever changed their phone number or moved, "What if Jacob came home and we weren't here anymore?"
I'm not sure what moved to write something about this. Maybe it's the fact that I've driven through St. Joseph, MN a million times, or the fact that Jacob was the same age as my kiddos at Park who I love. Or maybe it was the picture that I saw on the website for the foundation his parents started not long after he was abducted of the smiling, happy child who vanished without a trace.
The Jacob Wetterling Foundation
NSOR.net
AMW - Jacob Wetterling Case
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Haha- you are on a posting roll. This story is so sad. I bet crap like Britney wouldn't have taken precedence over this back in the day!
Ps: glad you liked the song. When I saw it performed live, I cried. It is so haunting.
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I know, the Jacob story is just heartbreaking, I can only imagine how the family feels.
As for Britney, she could drop off the face of the earth and that would be fine with me. Seriously, if she thinks behaving this way is going to help her keep her kids, she's got another thing coming. But it's a sad day when you're ruled a WORSE parent than Kevin Federline, I mean, the dude has got to be front runner for worst dad of the year, and he still actually has a shot at full custody. Sad. What's more sad is that I know that information, as opposed to stories that really matter, such as the Bianca story or the Jacob Wetterling story.
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